DATE

22 April 2026

Please note this workshop is subject to final confirmation.

TIME

13:30 – 17.30

DURATION

Four hours including a short break

LOCATION

Brussels, Belgium (Venue TBC)

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This half-day workshop, taking place as a side event to the ID@Borders Conference 2026, will dive into the topic of Facial Recognition Performance led by an international subject matter expert.

The workshop will give a broad look at the current state of the art in face recognition, touching on a wide range of technical topics that are usually considered when planning and deploying a face recognition system. The session will be organised into three segments:

• First, a detailed look at the eight tracks of NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) including: Presentation attack detection; age estimation; quality analysis; and distinguishing twins. This section will start with material on core algorithmic capability in one-to-one and one-to-many use cases, speed, ageing, scaling, morph detection, image quality summarization and effect of image quality on recognition, and joint face-plus-image operation.
  
  
• Second, the session will include the latest information on demographic effects, including state of the art, what’s important and what’s not, factors driving demographics differentials, recent research, goals for that research, standards, and advances in testing and measurement.
  
  
• Third, we will include material on satellite topics that are necessary for an in-context view of face recognition in applications: human vs. machine performance, absolute human performance, presentation attack detection vs. its bigger security context, systems vs. algorithms, remaining gaps and inabilities. We will also address new and revised standards including the EU-driven ISO/IEC 9868:2025.
  
  

WORKSHOP PRESENTER

Patrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology responsible for biometric standards and testing. He leads the IREX, FRTE, FATE and FIVE evaluations of iris and face recognition technologies that support biometrics in national scale identity management. He co-chairs NIST’s International Face Performance Conference on measurement, metrics and certification. Patrick has received U. S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals on three occasions, for work on biometrics in border control, for contributions to the PIV credential, and for work defining and quantifying demographic effects in biometrics.  Patrick assists a number of US Government agencies on research, development and evaluation. Since 2018 he serves as chair of the SC37 committee on Biometrics and is editor of five ISO standards there. He received the IEC 1906 Award in 2009 and the ANSI Lohse IT Medal in 2013. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

End-users, integrators, application developers and others interested in the technical performance aspects of face detection and recognition. 

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTIFICATION

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